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Helping a friend with depression and anxiety, any advice? (shrooms)
    #26902478 - 08/27/20 02:15 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Abit about my friend, he has been depressed and anxious for years now and it's only getting worse to the point now he doesn't even have the motivation to try different things that might help pull him away from being depressed.
For example my group of friends and I are into motorbiking/wild camping/fishing/playing guitars and harmonicas, he mentions to me often how he would love to get out more and do the stuff we do... But when the time comes theres always an excuse not to come...he's been like this for over 7 years.

He has recently seeked a therapist but I personally don't know how useful a therapist actually can be. I'm proud of him for taking this step in the right direction though.
He knows all to well what the anti-depressants can do to a person, two of my close friends went down that road and it made them much much worse to the point of being in pain with all the drugs.

I was in a similar place at one point, I've always been attracted to natural medicines(just reading and learning about them) until one day I tried shrooms with a genuine intention to cure my depression/anxiety and I didn't cure it 100% but damn I noticed a difference.

Any advice? I want him to sort this out his own way, hopefully his treatment works but if not - how should I go about getting him to try shrooms when he genuinely seems frightened of the idea?
What's a good way of showing someone you care about how good shrooms are as a medicine? It's like he thinks it's all fairytale and just sees the shrooms as a drug like cocain or heroin with no real benefits atall.


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Re: Helping a friend with depression and anxiety, any advice? (shrooms) [Re: Kmacmo]
    #26902510 - 08/27/20 02:41 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Check out "The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide" By James Fadiman.  There's some really good advice on how to use psychedelics (honestly, it seems more focused on LSD and mescaline) as medicine in more of a western context, which I think can help people from a western culture view it more as a legitimate medicine.  He also gives some good advice on how to be a good guide.  I'm about half way through, but really enjoying it so far.  I think if you read it, you'll have some better ideas about how to talk to your friend, but if you can get your friend to read it, he may get really psyched up for a trip!


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Re: Helping a friend with depression and anxiety, any advice? (shrooms) [Re: Kmacmo]
    #26902552 - 08/27/20 03:03 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

My opinion. I would send him links of videos explaining the benefits of shrooms from professional people. Maybe that would make him feel more comfortable with the idea of taking shrooms. I feel for your friend.


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Re: Helping a friend with depression and anxiety, any advice? (shrooms) [Re: Exstortion]
    #26902583 - 08/27/20 03:25 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

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Exstortion said:
My opinion. I would send him links of videos explaining the benefits of shrooms from professional people. Maybe that would make him feel more comfortable with the idea of taking shrooms. I feel for your friend.




I would go for this. Especially if you point your friend to the research done by the Imperial College in London and Johns Hopkins University. There are several interviews to the researchers and participants that you can share with your friend. That way he/she will realize it is a legitimate treatment  with great potential. I would also point him/her to information that shows mushrooms are not only not addictive but probably the safest drug out there, especially this paper:

http://www.ias.org.uk/uploads/pdf/news%20stories/dnutt-lancet-011110.pdf


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Re: Helping a friend with depression and anxiety, any advice? (shrooms) [Re: VP123]
    #26904186 - 08/28/20 01:09 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Thanks for the replys, I will have to check out the psychedelics explorers guide and that link you posted is very useful :smile:
And send him some videos, hopefully he takes the time to watch them ha.
Thank you all


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